Re:Why Jira Sucks
by specialist on Thursday December 31, 2020 @12:28PM
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Exactly right.
Our folk wisdom metaphors for QA/Test and change management are wrong. Sure, given enough thrust, even pigs can fly. But polish a turd and it's still a turd. [1]
JIRAs turrible implementation isn't even as bad as the CRM, ERP, enterprise products of yore. Turrible, sure. But I've seen worse. Much worse.
[1] I was a QA Manager for a while. Someday I may publish (explain) the play books my teams used for shrink wrapped releases. (Spoiler: I replaced a lot of heavy weight CRUD based mgmt with lightest weight artifacts. Like just printing all the bugs, taped to the wall, and using approval voting to prioritorize.) Until then, Bryzek's new "testing in production" strategy is the only QA/Test workflow that seems directionally correct in our new agile SaaS world.
Our folk wisdom metaphors for QA/Test and change management are wrong. Sure, given enough thrust, even pigs can fly. But polish a turd and it's still a turd. [1]
JIRAs turrible implementation isn't even as bad as the CRM, ERP, enterprise products of yore. Turrible, sure. But I've seen worse. Much worse.
[1] I was a QA Manager for a while. Someday I may publish (explain) the play books my teams used for shrink wrapped releases. (Spoiler: I replaced a lot of heavy weight CRUD based mgmt with lightest weight artifacts. Like just printing all the bugs, taped to the wall, and using approval voting to prioritorize.) Until then, Bryzek's new "testing in production" strategy is the only QA/Test workflow that seems directionally correct in our new agile SaaS world.
https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/Michael-Bryzek-testing-in-pro...